Bugs in FOG 0.33

Devlin7

Our company uses Altiris and pays a HUGE support cost each year for 650 workstations. We pay support and licensing but quite frankly there is no support. I am sure large companies like ours would switch to FOG if they knew it was supported and that updates came regularly. FOG does everything better than our existing Altiris setup except for two things. 1) There is no patch management and 2) You can’t edit or change the image after it is uploaded. In terms of speed fog leaves Altiris for dust. We run a multi site setup, I know it can be done with FOG but I haven’t worked it out yet. I think you guys have created a brilliant system. Keep up the good work!!!

astrouga

I’ve installed the .33 on an Ubuntu desktop running 11.10. First of all, the motivation was so that I could try imaging some Advanced Format (4k) drives that came in our Dell Optiplex 990 systems. The good news is that I was able to upload and deploy a Windows 7 image on these.
I tried the upgrade route (.32 to .33), but ultimately manually removed my fog install using (
[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Uninstall_FOG[/url] ) and downloaded the 850 trunk ( [url]http://freeghost.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freeghost/[/url] ).

I’ll run through my list of bugs so far. Sorry that they are in no particular order. I’ve done my best to recall the details of each.

When you go to the web interface for the first time, you have to update the schema before you can login. This always fails to successfully run two MySQL commands. There is a simple typo in the names of the tables. These to lines are correct:
ALTER TABLE moduleStatusByHost ADD UNIQUE ( msHostID , msModuleID);
ALTER TABLE snapinAssoc ADD UNIQUE ( saHostID , saSnapinID);
I just added them manually:
sudo mysql -u root -p
use fog;
then paste in the two commands
For some reason the /images directory that fog created was exported read only. This meant that every time I’d fire off an image, I’d get an error that said something about not being able to write to the /image directory or not being able to create an image sub-directory. I had to edit the /etc/exports file to fix this. BTW, there was an entry for /images/dev, that does not seem to be needed. My exports file looks like:
/images *(rw,no_subtree_check,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_loc
ks,no_root_squash,insecure)
Edit: make sure you run sudo exportfs -a to make the changes active.
Tasks are not being deleted from the MySQL table when they are completed. Many times after an image is completed, if I go to the “Task Management” page, I’ll see an active imaging task that I can’t remove. Clicking the delete button spits back an error saying that config file (MAC address based file name ) cannot be deleted. Usually the file has already been deleted. So I have to go into MySQL and “delete from table Tasks;”.
The “Main Menu” on the “Other Settings” page does not work. Clicking on any option produces a red debug bar. For example, if I click on “FOG Settings” the bar at the top that says “FOG DEBUG: FOGPageManager: Class: OtherInformationManagementPage, Method: settings, Error: Method not found in class, defaulting to index()”.
It took forever to figure out how pull an image. You click on the “Host Management” link, then “List All Hosts”, then click the hosts name that you want to use for your image, then “Host Tasks”. I like this idea – moving the upload option to the host, but it was difficult to find. The Download and Upload links do seem to work. However the Download link that appears as a green down-arrow next to the IP of a host in the “All Hosts” screen always fails to work for me. It produces the following errors:
"FOG DEBUG: TaskType: Create Class Failed: Class: TaskType, Error: No data array or ID passed!
Failed to create deploy task
Task Type is not valid
"
On the Dashboard, under “Disk Information” I have a “Database error;” which is a link. Next to it is an empty pull-down menu. Clicking on the link gives me: “FOG DEBUG: FOGPageManager: Failed to Render Page: Node: hwinfo, Error: No FOGPage Class found for this node. You should try the old “includes” style management code found here”

Hope that helps some.

–astrouga

astrouga

[SIZE=3]More details on #3 in my other bug post. The specific error I get when I click the delete task icon is:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]“FOG FATAL ERROR: TaskManagementPage: FOGFTP: Failed to delete file. Path: /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/01-d2-bd-d9-9a-b2-43, Error: ftp_delete(): Delete operation failed.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]where “d2-bd-d9-9a-b2-43” is the mac address of my client.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=3]Also, not a really a bug, but the installation.txt file needs updating. I think it is safe to to add Windows 7 to the Overview section, as I have been using it since Windows 7 came out. Also, the Installation sections says that it has only been tested on ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04? That can’t be true. I used it on 9, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10 and am testing it on the 12.04 beta now.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=3]–astrouga [/SIZE]

astrouga

#3 from my initial list. (summary of issue)

After deploying an image, the job is not removed properly either from the tftpboot folder or the mysql db (or both). When an image deployment completes, the computer will not reboot. Instead it says:
“Updating Computer Database Status
*Unable to locate job in database, please ensure mac address is correct.
*Error: Unable to remove TFTP file
*Error: Unable to remove TFTP file
*Error: Unable to remove TFTP file
*Error: Unable to remove TFTP file
…”
The last message continues until you manually reboot.

If I look at the server, there is no TFTP file in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg. So it seems the file is removed, but the client is not reporting it properly. The mysql db still shows the task too. And if you try to remove it from the web-interface by clicking on the delete button, you get an error like:
[SIZE=3]“FOG FATAL ERROR: TaskManagementPage: FOGFTP: Failed to delete file. Path: /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/01-d2-bd-d9-9a-b2-43, Error: ftp_delete(): Delete operation failed.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]where “d2-bd-d9-9a-b2-43” is the mac address of my client.[/SIZE]
I can delete the task from the mysql db and fix this though:
sudo mysql -u root -p
use fog;
delete from tasks;

Blackout

Great feedback guys! This lets me know where to focus my energy.

astrouga

851 trunk issues - 1 major bug introduced:
Just installed Ubuntu 12.04 today, and a clean install of the 851 trunk. Using firefox.

Item 1 from my initial post is fixed – I don’t get any errors there.
Item 2 is still broken…my /etc/exports file still has the images dir as ro. Easily fixed as described above.
Item 3 has been partially fixed. After uploading an image, the client was unable to delete the task, but when I clicked on the “Task Management” page and hit the red delete button, the file in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/ was deleted and the task was deleted from the mysql db! Yeah.
Item 4: still broken.
Item 5: The “deploy” link next to the hostname now seems to work. I haven’t run a full test, but I don’t get an error now.
Item 6: Still broken, though I’m unable to click the link or use the pull down menu now.

Big major issue:
When I attempt to deploy and image that I created, I get this far:
FOG Splash comes up (still says 0.32, BTW)
…
Send Method…Done.
Checking Queue…Done.

Failed to load class file: Class: NodeFailureManager, Error: Could not find file: File: NodeFailureManager.class.php, Paths: /var/www/fog/lib/fog, /var/www/fog/lib/db, /var/www/fog/lib/pages

That last message repeats forever. When I look in those directories, that file is not there. However, there is a “NodeFailure.class.php” in /var/www/fog/lib/fog. I can no longer deploy an image.

Thanks for working on the updates!

BryceZ

Astrouga, unless they’ve decided to change the way the /images directory creates and stores images, the /etc/exports file is correct. /images is for storing files that have been uploaded. /images/dev is for writing the image during the upload process. Once an image has completed uploading it is moved from /images/dev to /images. It’s to prevent people from just connecting over NFS to the /images share and start messing with image files.

Thanks for tracking down all these bugs. Knowing where things break makes it easier to find what’s wrong or hasn’t been converted yet.

astrouga

BryceZ:

Thanks for explanation. My fix was just to get things working. I did another full, clean install this morning. Here is what the default install (851 trunk) does on an image upload:
"

An error has been detected! *

Unable to create /images/d424be1d42d7

Computer will reboot in 1 minute! *

[SIZE=2]"[/SIZE]
where d424be1d42d7 is the ethernet address of the client I am attempting to pull an image from.

Here is the exports file:

more /etc/exports:
/images *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure)
/images/dev *(rw,sync,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure)

Altering the exports file the way I described earlier allowed imaging to work. Perhaps there is just a mistake in their code and it is attempting to write to the wrong folder. I was hoping that by documenting my issues and fixes, it would help the developers, but also get some other folks to test out fog in their environment. I’m going to try to put some time aside later today to look at the init.gz file and see what the client is trying to do.

Cheers, astrouga

regad

Where can I find the FOG 0.33 release ?
I would like to test it and report eventual issues.

astrouga

I just download a tarball of the trunk from:

[url]http://freeghost.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freeghost/[/url]

851 is the latest.

–astrouga

regad

Thank you.
I’m starting the installation.

Blackout

@astrouga

I have committed the missing class files - sorry!

#2 - this is by design, /images/ should be read-only.

The dir it’s writing to should be /images/dev/ i.e. /images/dev/mac_address

There must be a bug that is not adding the dev directory to the path.

#3 - good to hear, ill look into the service scripts more.

#4 - Web UI code is yet to be created

#5 - was missing ‘task type id’ from the link - also fixed this problem in group manager

#6 - not sure why the disk info fails - will look into this more when i look at the dashboard again

Keep the bug reports coming! It helps knowing where i should focus my efforts.

Blackout

853 is up

Renamed GroupMembers Classes to GroupAssociation Classes
schemaupdater: Unique field setup for ‘groups’ and ‘groupMembers’ tables
FOGManagerController: buildSelectBox(): ID is now listed after the object name
Lots of ‘State ID’ changes for Tasks and Service Scripts - needs testing by imaging
HostManagementPage: Action box to assign hosts to groups now works again
HostManagementPage: Checkbox toggle works again

Blackout

854

FOGBase: Cleaned up logging functions - made more readable and less scary looking
Group: Deploy: Hostnames now link to edit page of Host
Updated edit icon
JavaScript: FOGAjaxSearch: Fixed template issue not showing zeros

855

JavaScript: Clean up unused JavaScript & tidy HTML for JavaScript - FOG now finds the JavaScript it needs automatically
JavaScript: Condensed JavaScript
AJAX Files: Removed unused AJAX files - these are deprecated as FOGPage now handles these requests
Logging tweaks
SystemUptime() function moved to FOGCore
Dashboard: Fixed disk usage, image history and bandwidth meter

Blackout

Need some imaging tests if possible as I’ve made a bunch of State ID changes.

I’d like to know if you can deploy -> boot -> image and have the task removed automatically.

astrouga

Blackout, I’ll wipe my server and do a new install this morning. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Thanks for all the hard work!

regad

I don’t manage to upload an image from a host. When I’m in the upload menu I have only the choice to press the blue button :
“Deploy to host”.
In the .32 release there is in “basic tasks / upload” a grey button named : “upload image”

astrouga

I did a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04 with Fog 33b (trunk 856) today. I only had time for limited testing. These are the items I came across. Sorry if some are the same as reported earlier…I just didn’t have time to compare:

Same issue with writing to the images directory. On an image creation task (upload), I get an error it can’t create a folder in /images/macaddressofclient. Looks like the /dev is being left out of the path.
I made /images folder rw so I could continue testing.
When I click on “Hosts Tasks --> Upload”, the page is a little confusing. The top says “Deploy Task: Upload” and the button to start it says “Deploy to hostname” where hostname is your client name. When I click on that, The next page says “Deploy image to host”…that doesn’t sound like an upload to me, so that is confusing.
Image upload works with change in #1. The task finishes on the client. No error, just a single line repeats over and over:
" *

…
"

I had to manually reboot the client. The task was still in the Task Management view and was listed in the mysql tasks table.

The delete task button (red box with x) removes the task from the view, but it does not remove the task from the mysql tasks table. If you refresh the Task Management page in the browser, the task comes back. I had to go back into the mysql db and delete the task. (One note is that I was able to remove tasks from the Task Management page if they had not started on the client.)

Also, the image file lives in a folder that is based on the mac address of the client, and not the task name that I assigned when I created the task. So to deploy that image, I had to change the name of the directory or the “image path” in the image defintion.

Deploying an image finished and the computer rebooted. The task was not deleted though. Had to do it manually through mysql. Also, my image did not actually work, but I think that is my fault. The imaging process is still really slow for me. I can provide more info on this later if needed.
All of the links on the “Other Information” page produce a FOG DEBUG error involving missing Methods in classes.
A few tiny version-related things to note: When I run the installfog.sh installer script, it still says version 0.32. Also, in the init.gz file used to boot the client, the /usr/share/fog/lib/funcs.sh file has the 0.32 version in the “displayBanner()” function, so you see that version when the client boots up and is about to start the task.

Cheers, astrouga

Blackout

857

schemaupdater: Added table: taskLog
Added Classes: TaskLog, TaskLogManager
Host: createImagePackage(): If task is upload, add ‘dev/’ to end of ‘storage’ kernel arg - fixes bug reported
Task: Added: removePXEFile() - Removes PXE File
Task: Added: cancel() - Sets Task to ‘Cancelled’ status and removes PXE File
Active Tasks: “red x” now Cancels Task instead of Destroying
Host + Group Management: Added ‘Deploy’ icon to row results
Host + Group Management: Renamed various links
Deploy: Update titles and buttons to reflect Task Type and Target

#1 - Fixed
#2 - Fixed
#3 - Probably not fixed - please test again
#4 - Related to #3
#5 - These pages arent complete yet
#6 - Will be updated on final packaging, thank you for reminding

falko

wow development is fast, even if it has been quite up until now. Hats of to Blackout and the other developers + those testing.

now ubuntu 12.04 Server is out i will give the 0.33 trunk a test

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